Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "carrier" can be used as noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

hauler

Derived Terms

ASW carrier OBO carrier anticarrier biocarrier carrier cycle carrier hotel carrier screening carrier set carrier shell carriership crude carrier immunocarrier intercarrier macrocarrier megacarrier microcarrier multicarrier nanocarrier noncarrier ore-bulk-oil carrier phosphocarrier photocarrier subcarrier supercarrier

Derived From

carry

Context

chemistry electronics engineering genetics medicine pathology physics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

being boy business business concern business organisation business organization chemical chemical substance combat ship concern deliverer delivery boy immune male child organism rack radio emission radio radiation radio wave self-propelled vehicle stand transmitter traveler traveller vector war vessel warship

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

English Carrier T-carrier air carrier aircraft carrier airship carrier amalgam carrier armored personnel carrier armoured personnel carrier baby carrier bag-carrier ball carrier balloon carrier banner carrier battlecarrier bicycle carrier bulk carrier car carrier carrier bag carrier fluid carrier gas carrier oil carrier pigeon carrier protein carrier wave carrier-pigeon cash carrier charge carrier child carrier common carrier electron carrier energy carrier escort carrier first-level carrier flag carrier fleet carrier harrier carrier helicopter carrier hod carrier insurance carrier ion carrier jeep carrier lathe carrier letter carrier letter-carrier light carrier lightning carrier local exchange carrier low cost carrier low-cost carrier mail carrier mail-carrier obligate carrier old English carrier people carrier people-carrier personnel carrier pet carrier plate-carrier plating carrier postal carrier seaplane carrier second-level carrier spear carrier spear-carrier straddle carrier third-level carrier troop carrier ultra large crude carrier ultra low cost carrier very large crude carrier water carrier water-carrier

Type Of (IsA)

business chemical deliveryman immune last name organism rack self propelled vehicle traveler vector

Related Terms

Carriere Central Carrier English Carrier Northern Carrier Southern Carrier

Related Terms

airline athabaskan barrel bobbin braid canada carrier pigeon carry cartridge central carrier charge carrier drive faceplate freight gun homer homing pigeon journalese king of doos language lathe machine magazine misnomer modulate northern carrier old english pigeon racing racing homer signal southern carrier spool term wireless carrier

Synonym Network

aircraft carrier carrier wave mailman

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.